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Carrie Lucas
It's Not What You Got (It's How You Use It) b/w Keep Smilin' (Promo 12")
Solar Records (US) / 1980 (A) 1977 (B) / JD 12086
12" Disco single 33 ⅓ rpm Vinyl Promo
Producer: Leon Sylvers III (A) Dick Griffey (B)
Executive producer: Dick Griffey
Side A
Carrie Lucas : It's Not What You Got (It's How You Use It 6:27
Side B
Carrie Lucas featuring the Whispers : Keep Smilin' 7:47
Carrie Lucas had a Disco smash in 1977 with "I Gotta Keep Dancing" on the Soul Train label. For some reason Dick Griffey of Solar saw fit to re-release it in a slightly different mix as simply "Keep Smilin'" as the flipside to the 1980 single, "It's Not What You Got (It's How You Use It." For all intents and purposes "I Gotta Keep Dancing" and "Keep Smilin'" are the same song.
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Nov 04, 2005 | 4:26 pmThe difference between Keep Smilin' and Gotta Keep Dancing were KS was a remix with better drums then GKD original mix. Most of the Solar remixes were pressed louder than the original mixes.
12" singles on many RCA-distributed labels such as Soul Train (then later Solar) formed part of the RCA general numbering system, with variance of the first letter depending on label. Promotional 12"s almost always preceded the commercial release (if issued) both in release date AND number. The white label promo copy of "I Gotta Keep Dancing" b/w (same) was issued as SD-10891 as by Carrie Lucas. The commercial release, in the original gray-based multicoloured label, of GKD was issued as SD-10947 b/w "What's The Question" as by Carrie (no surname). We first heard this great track in 1977 at a Honolulu disco called Spats in the Grand Hyatt. It was the first time we saw the wonderful steam locomotive logo circling around the turntable. That being said, we have often wondered with puzzlement why the art director(s) at Soul Train designed the label so the train moves in reverse rather than forward when the turntable is spinning.